In trade, the two sides are linked together, and since it is cooperation, the influence of both sides cannot be unilateral. While the three cities outside the Saiwai have a profound impact on the economy of the horse-riding peoples outside the Saiwai, how can the horse-riding peoples have a negative restrictive effect on the economy of the three cities outside the Saiwai and even the Central Plains?

For example, if our neighbors are poor, should we or our neighbors be worried? In the early Ming Dynasty of Guo Bin's original historical time and space, there was an ethnic group in the northeast called the Jurchens, which was the predecessor of Manchuria. At this time, the Jurchen production was extremely backward, and there was basically no formed social organization, and their lives included fishing, hunting, grazing, and farming. However, this complexity of productive life is not a good thing for them, which shows that they cannot rely on a single mode of production to support themselves. The reason for this is that the Northeast is a bitter cold land, which is a bitter cold land, and the growth cycle of animals and plants is long, whether it is planting crops or hunting, its harvest is extremely limited.

Because there is such a poor neighbor, there is always a worry about being robbed, so the Ming Dynasty government is also anxious. After the failure to promote agricultural technology to the Jurchens, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di finally came up with a solution, that is, to open a field and trade between the two sides. So he opened the "Kaiyuan Horse Market" in Fushun, Liaoning, and exchanged daily necessities such as grain, rice, salt, and sauce from the Central Plains with the Jurchens for various local products such as ginseng, fungus, and animal skins.

In this way, a mutually beneficial trade model was finally formed. From then on, the Jurchens were no longer engaged in farming, but focused on hunting and gathering. In their opinion, instead of tirelessly planting those insecure crops, it is better to pick some matsutake mushrooms and make some mink to trade with the Ming Dynasty. As a result, after the Jurchens' lives stabilized, the security problems of the northeastern frontier of the Ming Dynasty were also resolved.

However, with the deepening of trade between the two sides, the dependence of the Jurchen economy on the Ming Dynasty deepened, and new problems arose: the Jurchens, who were originally scattered in the three northeastern provinces of China and even further north, abandoned their original way of life and production in pursuit of water and grass, and gradually concentrated their lives around the Mashi trade route, and began to live in pursuit of profit.

In order to maintain stability outside the border, the Ming Dynasty government adopted a method that seemed to be the most labor-saving and cost-saving at that time, that is, to support agents. The imperial court gave loyal tribal chiefs certain powers, ordering them to maintain order outside the gates.

This approach was also said to be appropriate under the circumstances. In ancient China, not all the land had to be held in its arms, and adopting different political methods in different regions was a skill that only a clever politician could master. Like the bitter cold land outside the Northeast, how many people in the Central Plains were willing to go at that time? Therefore, relying on political methods similar to those of vassal states, it is possible to indirectly control the outer lands in their hands at a very small cost. The vassal state system is an extremely clever diplomatic innovation of the ancient Chinese, and how clever it is will not be mentioned here.

However, the advent of the Xiaoice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty led to abnormal weather and drought outbreaks, grain harvests in various parts of the Central Plains, and Li Zicheng's hometown of Shaanxi, from 1622 to 1629, eight years of drought, without a single rain, the entire Yan'an Province even to the extent of "cannibalism".

There is no grain in the Central Plains, and the trade activities of exchanging grain in the Kaiyuan Horse Market naturally cannot be carried out, and the Saiwai is a bitter cold place, and the ginseng and matsutake mushrooms cannot fill their stomachs, and the Jurchens concentrated in this small area of the Kaiyuan Horse Market rely on hunting and gathering, and their lives are naturally unsustainable, and the Jurchens who have lost their self-sufficiency have embarked on the road south under the leadership of a talented chieftain. This is 1608 A.D., the leader of the Jurchens is called Nurhachi, he took the ginseng that could not be sold, and brought 5,000 men and horses to Fushun to ask for money. If you don't give money, you have to fight, which is also the beginning of the armed confrontation between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, and what they did is known in history as "coercion".

It can be seen that trade can bring not only peace, but also war.

However, Guo Bin has always been extremely cautious in the matter of trade between the three cities, and he carefully controls the composition of goods in the trade between the two sides. What the Xianbei tribe sold was felt made of wool, surplus cattle, sheep, horses, and dairy products, which still relied on the original nomadic production and lifestyle of the Xianbei people; What the Central Plains Dynasty sold was silk, silk, fine wine, soap, new buildings, and new clothing, but there were no necessities such as grain. Therefore, it can be seen that although there is a complementary relationship between the two sides in trade, it has never reached the degree of interdependence, and without the silk, silk, wine and other things of the Central Plains, the grassland people can still rely on nomadic herding to meet their own living needs, and the dairy products, wool products, livestock and other things they want to provide are the output of nomadic life.

Therefore, as a hub connecting the Central Plains and the Cypriot foreign trade routes, the goods traded by the three cities were only surplus products in their own production and life, and even if this trade route was broken one day, although some impact was inevitable, they would each be able to support themselves, and it would not lead to a large-scale war. This was the best thing Guo Bin could do in his current position, because even he was not completely sure what kind of violent force the coming storm would carry on the land of the Central Plains, and he could not predict whether the war in the Central Plains would cut off the trade routes in a few years.

In order not to bring in the horse-riding peoples from the north and cause greater chaos in such a complicated environment in the Central Plains, Guo Bin could only carefully and very limited develop bilateral trade, and do his best to better occupy a dominant position in Yingchuan County in the Central Plains Rebellion. Because in the chaos of the Central Plains, the war horses on the grassland outside the Saiwai are always expensive and powerful strategic materials.

Therefore, it can be said that the road connecting the three cities outside the Saiwai and Luoyang is the lifeline of the trade market in the three cities, and the safety of this road is directly related to the progress of Guo Bin's accumulation of strength, so Guo Bin attaches so much importance to the layout of the dart board on this road.

According to his original plan, Yingchuan County was supposed to form its own cavalry unit to ensure the safety of the trade route. However, the formation of cavalry troops is not only extremely eye-catching, but also easy to cause misunderstanding between the Son of Heaven and the princes of the current dynasty, and the cost is even greater. In addition, each caravan comes and goes on this road, the time of departure is different, and the size of the caravan is also different, if you want to ensure the safety of each caravan on this caravan, you need to equip each caravan with a considerable number of cavalry, so that the scale of the cavalry force required is too large, and it must reach the scale of tens of thousands of horsemen in order to basically form an effective control over this trade route.

Therefore, the motion to form a cavalry unit was stillborn before it was filed. It wasn't until he met Liu Pi on the way south that Guo Bin had an idea and thought of the dart game.

First of all, the game is a business, it can appear and survive in history, it naturally has its own reason for existence, and it must have its own set of ecosystems. The dart bureau naturally has to collect dart silver before betting on the dart, so it is a self-financing non-governmental business organization, through the "head and face" of Liu Pi on the rivers and lakes and the large and small cottages on the trade road to establish contacts, after the formation of interdependent trade relations, the dart bureau can only rely on a dart flag to go all over the trade route, compared to the formation of cavalry troops to save the cost of the sea.

Secondly, although the establishment of the dart bureau has the support of Guo Bin, and even the initiative he personally proposed and designed such an organization, which has a deep official background, it is a non-governmental organization after all, and it will be more convenient to act in many things. Otherwise, if Guo Bin personally sent people to various cottages on the business road to discuss business, he would not be able to make the city full of storms? When the time comes, maybe someone will deduct a charge on his head for communicating with a yellow turban thief, which is certainly not worth it in today's situation, but if it is taken out when he is facing the scene, it may be a big event.

And if you rely on the dart game to act, even if everyone knows in their hearts that this is the beginning and end of Guo Bin behind them, they can't talk about things on the table, even if they are taken out by someone at that time, they can prevaricate without knowing it. And now in the name of the dart game, to establish contact with these cottages, if you want to recruit them, there is also a suitable person to come forward, which may come in handy at a critical moment.

Later, the more Guo Bin pondered about it, the more he felt that this matter was feasible, so he directly decided to let Liu Pi take his subordinates north to Yangzhai, and then contacted Xi Zhicai, and explained the operation of the dart bureau through letters. In this way, the dart bureau had already begun to operate before Guo Bin arrived in Yangzhai from Jiaozhou to the north, and Liu Pi, who was the head of the dart bureau, had already taken a few henchmen to the north to explore the way.

The name of the dart game was taken by Guo Bin, and he fully respected his bad taste as a reborn person, called "Fuwei Dart Game". Therefore, whenever he saw Liu Bi, the number one leader in the dart game, he always thought of Lin Yuantu in Jin Daxia intentionally or unintentionally, and he would unconsciously look at Liu Bi's next three roads, which often made Liu Pi feel cold all over his body, and almost thought that this person was good at Longyang.

Jokes aside, no one can deny the important role of the dart game in such a situation, its appearance makes the chaotic and disorderly trade routes orderly and safe, not only for the world's wealthy families to save the huge cost of guarding the trade routes, but also for the appeasement of the place played a huge role.

It is undeniable that even the most evil people are good in their hearts, and no one is born with the intention of being a bad person, and the heroes and green forests in the cottages along the trade route are no exception. Many ordinary people were coerced into the Yellow Turban Army, or into the cottages, not really because they were so indulgent and tired of hard work, thinking all day long that they wanted to get a source of livelihood through robbery, but they couldn't live at home.

Another danger of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was that it turned many families who could barely make ends meet into abject poverty, but did not solve the problem of feeding the common people. However, the inaction of the local government, or the erroneous decision of the military leader to act as the chief executive of the local administration, made the local government unable to effectively solve the problem of food and life for the destitute people.

Guo Bin's cooperation with the cottage provides them with the minimum guarantee of production and life, so that they can settle up and farm near the cottage and stabilize from then on. So Guo Bin's arrangement, so that the dart bureau with the money of the wealthy caravans around the country to stabilize the trade routes, and at the same time can solve the economic problems of the cottage by the way, after the cottage develops into a small town that can run independently, it is no longer empty talk to transform them into household Qi people.